The story of Def Leppard’s Hysteria is like no other. It involves an arm loss, three producers, three studios, two crashes… oh, and about three years of delays and frustration. Leppard pitched ...

Four years passed between Def Leppard’s massive Pyromania and the band’s pop metal masterpiece Hysteria. The masterpiece tested the limits of the compact disc and became a thoroughly ...

As the '80s megaband fights for a bigger share of digital royalties, its singer breaks down the issues at hand, how acts like My Chemical Romance could suffer in the future and the state of today's ...

Joe Elliott of Def Leppard doesn’t like MTV. Sure, one might scratch their head and wonder why, considering that during a good part of the ’80s, the network played, in heavy rotation, many of the band ...

Formed in Sheffield in 1977, Def Leppard had always been a band with big plans. Hence the later ditching of the small-town management team that got them their major record deal with Phonogram, in 1979 ...